My Life Topics for Discussion

Lyn Hejinian

This Study Guide consists of approximately 42 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of My Life.

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Section 1: A pause, a rose, something on paper, As for we who 'love to be astonished' & It seemed that we had hardly begun and we were already there

Section 2: A name trimmed with colored ribbons, What is the meaning hung from that depend & The obvious analogy is with music

Section 3: Like plump birds along the shore, The inevitable sentiment is a preliminary & What memory is not a 'gripping' thought

Section 4: We have come a long way from what we actually felt, It is hard to turn away from moving water & I wrote my name in every one of his books

Section 5: Religion is a vague lowing, Any photographer will tell you the same & At the time the perpetual Latin of love kept things hidden

Section 6: She showed the left profile, the good one, It was only a coincidence & When one travels, one might hit a storm

Section 7: Such displacements alter illusions, which is all-to-the-good, The coffee drinkers answered ecstatically, We are not forgetting the patience of the mad, their love of detail & Reason looks for two, then arranges it from there

Section 8: I never swept the sand from where I was going to sit down, No puppy or dog will ever be capable of this, and surely no parrot, The greatest thrill was to be the one to tell & The plow makes trough enough

Section 9: The years pass, years in which, I take it, events were not lacking, So upright, twilit quoted & Yet we insist that life is full of happy chances

Section 10: The settling-in that we're describing is a preliminary to being blown up, I laugh as if my pots were clean, A somewhat saltier, earthier tomato grows there and is more seductive & There is not sameness of the sky

Section 11: One begins as a student but becomes a friend of clouds, At a moment of trotting on only one foot in so much snow, If there's nothing out the windows look at books & The run, that if you broke it, you'd have none

Section 12: Now such is the rhythm of cognition & Preliminaries consist of such eternity

Section 13: My morphemes mourned events & Skies are the terrains of this myopic

Section 14: And I in the middleground found & The world gives speech substance and mind (mile) stones

Section 15: A word to guard continents of fruits and organs & Altruism in poetry

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My Life Topics for Discussion

Lyn Hejinian

This Study Guide consists of approximately 42 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of My Life.